Kris Lin
CHINA
Meet Kris Lin - a powerhouse of good design, creativity and innovation based in China. Kris Lin's design journey has been nothing short of spectacular, marked by a tireless pursuit of excellence. This dedication is clearly mirrored in Kris Lin's impressive haul of 28 A' Design Awards that we showcase here. Spanning across categories such as Interior, Architecture, Trade Show, Hospitality and Cultural Heritage, Kris Lin's work stands as a living testament to a steadfast commitment to design excellence, serving as a beacon of inspiration for designers globally. With each project, Kris Lin masterfully blends form and function, crafting designs that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional and timeless. This approach underscores Kris Lin's celebration of creativity and an unyielding quest for innovation.
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Royal One Private Club House
This private club is crafted for wine enthusiasts and hosts of social gatherings, aiming to balance personal indulgence with social interaction. Circular design elements symbolize harmony, embodying the Unity of Heaven and Human principle and connecting design with emotions. A water droplet art piece adds an artistic touch, symbolizing life's vitality and merging natural elements with modern design. This initiative redefines the role of private clubs and explores spatial aesthetics and humanistic philosophy.
This private club is crafted for wine enthusiasts and hosts of social gatherings, aiming to balance personal indulgence with social interaction. Circular design elements symbolize harmony, embodying the Unity of Heaven and Human principle and connecting design with emotions. A water droplet art piece adds an artistic touch, symbolizing life's vitality and merging natural elements with modern design. This initiative redefines the role of private clubs and explores spatial aesthetics and humanistic philosophy.
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Jenga Community Public Building
The project is a public building at the entrance of a residential community, occupying 1200 square meters and housing four main functions: commercial space, community lobby, property management office, and equipment room. However, space constraints arise due to setbacks from adjacent buildings and redline restrictions. Drawing inspiration from the childhood game Jenga, the design integrates each functional area like interconnected blocks, resulting in a cohesive and unified exterior façade, enhancing overall unity.
The project is a public building at the entrance of a residential community, occupying 1200 square meters and housing four main functions: commercial space, community lobby, property management office, and equipment room. However, space constraints arise due to setbacks from adjacent buildings and redline restrictions. Drawing inspiration from the childhood game Jenga, the design integrates each functional area like interconnected blocks, resulting in a cohesive and unified exterior façade, enhancing overall unity.
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Unbounded Office
The project, targeting corporate spirit and real-world work requirements, amalgamates diverse functionalities such as office work, reception, meetings, tea tasting, collecting, resting, and fishkeeping. Adopting a Unbounded design concept and utilizing modern materials like mirrors and stainless steel, it aims to achieve an infinite extension and maximal continuity of space. This approach seeks to break away from the constraints of traditional closed offices, creating an open, multi functional working environment.
The project, targeting corporate spirit and real-world work requirements, amalgamates diverse functionalities such as office work, reception, meetings, tea tasting, collecting, resting, and fishkeeping. Adopting a Unbounded design concept and utilizing modern materials like mirrors and stainless steel, it aims to achieve an infinite extension and maximal continuity of space. This approach seeks to break away from the constraints of traditional closed offices, creating an open, multi functional working environment.
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The Crystal Clubhouse Community Shared Space
The project aims to establish a community-shared clubhouse to foster social interaction. Featuring amenities such as a tea room, shared library, sunlit swimming pool, gym, and yoga studio, it seeks to deepen family communication and create a healthy community. Inspired by crystal and employing integrated design, the project creates a lightweight and transparent glass building, enhancing space transparency and openness to cultivate a vibrant community atmosphere.
The project aims to establish a community-shared clubhouse to foster social interaction. Featuring amenities such as a tea room, shared library, sunlit swimming pool, gym, and yoga studio, it seeks to deepen family communication and create a healthy community. Inspired by crystal and employing integrated design, the project creates a lightweight and transparent glass building, enhancing space transparency and openness to cultivate a vibrant community atmosphere.
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Ruyi Exhibition Center
The designer carries out the second creation by extracting, analyzing, and abstracting the shape of Ruyi to express the contemporary design with new materials and construction methods. In this construction, a steel structure is used to make a curved shape. The entire facade is covered by white aluminum plates with each plate processed into curves with different arcs through precise calculations. They are perfectly spliced to form a streamlined shape, forming a sense of modern technology and creating the charm of Ruyi. Every design detail is so fully displayed.
The designer carries out the second creation by extracting, analyzing, and abstracting the shape of Ruyi to express the contemporary design with new materials and construction methods. In this construction, a steel structure is used to make a curved shape. The entire facade is covered by white aluminum plates with each plate processed into curves with different arcs through precise calculations. They are perfectly spliced to form a streamlined shape, forming a sense of modern technology and creating the charm of Ruyi. Every design detail is so fully displayed.
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White Mountain Club House
This is a community clubhouse that shows the future life of the community. The designer, inspired by the shape of the rolling hills, creates the surficial landscape which extends down to the visual surface of the building. In this way, the building's perception of solidity will be weakened to fully integrate into the urban space. It also reduces the interference of the building to the urban environment and maintains the continuity of the urban landscape space.
This is a community clubhouse that shows the future life of the community. The designer, inspired by the shape of the rolling hills, creates the surficial landscape which extends down to the visual surface of the building. In this way, the building's perception of solidity will be weakened to fully integrate into the urban space. It also reduces the interference of the building to the urban environment and maintains the continuity of the urban landscape space.
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Mirror Sales Center
This sales office project, facing low ceilings and poor lighting, innovatively overcomes these challenges with design and material solutions. Mirror technology visually raises the ceiling above 5 meters, enhancing spatial perception. LED-lit translucent jade glass walls, made from recycled materials, and high-gloss finishes like reflective stone and lacquer, significantly improve lighting and visually expand the space, creating a bright and open area for display, sales, and reception.
This sales office project, facing low ceilings and poor lighting, innovatively overcomes these challenges with design and material solutions. Mirror technology visually raises the ceiling above 5 meters, enhancing spatial perception. LED-lit translucent jade glass walls, made from recycled materials, and high-gloss finishes like reflective stone and lacquer, significantly improve lighting and visually expand the space, creating a bright and open area for display, sales, and reception.
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Sky Spa Wellness Spaces
The project, located on the top floor with expansive views, aims to create a rejuvenating Spa sanctuary where one can briefly escape the hustle and bustle of city life. Utilizing large floor to ceiling glass windows, it brings the sky indoors, facilitating a holistic experience of mind and body unity. Embracing the concept of Blue Sky, the design transforms the facade windows into floor to ceiling ones, recreating the sky's scenery. Additionally, through an open layout and large windows, it enhances air circulation, elevating the overall health benefits.
The project, located on the top floor with expansive views, aims to create a rejuvenating Spa sanctuary where one can briefly escape the hustle and bustle of city life. Utilizing large floor to ceiling glass windows, it brings the sky indoors, facilitating a holistic experience of mind and body unity. Embracing the concept of Blue Sky, the design transforms the facade windows into floor to ceiling ones, recreating the sky's scenery. Additionally, through an open layout and large windows, it enhances air circulation, elevating the overall health benefits.
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Dekton Cosentino Pavilion Exhibition
Design Shanghai is Asia's most prestigious design event, bringing together over 600 domestic and international design brands from more than 40 countries. The event attracted nearly 200,000 visitors. The Spanish brand Dekton and Cosentino showcased their designs in a 150-square-meter booth, captivating the audience. The booth featured an open layout, offering product displays, client interactions, and coffee bar services, showcasing the characteristics of Dekton Slim stone panels, including their large size, thin profile, integration, and recyclability.
Design Shanghai is Asia's most prestigious design event, bringing together over 600 domestic and international design brands from more than 40 countries. The event attracted nearly 200,000 visitors. The Spanish brand Dekton and Cosentino showcased their designs in a 150-square-meter booth, captivating the audience. The booth featured an open layout, offering product displays, client interactions, and coffee bar services, showcasing the characteristics of Dekton Slim stone panels, including their large size, thin profile, integration, and recyclability.
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Spiritual Bay Villa Residential
Located in Qingdao West Coast, China's ninth largest new district, this project presents exclusive first-line sea view villas. The villas boast open-plan layouts, ocean-view bedrooms, home theaters, tea rooms, and more, emphasizing "frame scene" design to transform sea views into living art through floor-to-ceiling windows. This modern minimalist approach enhances the focus on outside ocean vistas, allowing residents to immerse in nature's beauty without leaving home.
Located in Qingdao West Coast, China's ninth largest new district, this project presents exclusive first-line sea view villas. The villas boast open-plan layouts, ocean-view bedrooms, home theaters, tea rooms, and more, emphasizing "frame scene" design to transform sea views into living art through floor-to-ceiling windows. This modern minimalist approach enhances the focus on outside ocean vistas, allowing residents to immerse in nature's beauty without leaving home.
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My Dream Home Public Welfare Renovation
Oriental TV's Extreme Makeover Home Edition is one of China's highest rated public welfare TV programs, attracting over 500 million viewers. The show aims to improve the cramped living spaces of low income families through space renovation, providing better living conditions for vulnerable groups in society and giving back to the community through design. Integrating architectural, landscape, interior, and soft furnishing design, the program addresses issues such as limited space and poor ventilation.
Oriental TV's Extreme Makeover Home Edition is one of China's highest rated public welfare TV programs, attracting over 500 million viewers. The show aims to improve the cramped living spaces of low income families through space renovation, providing better living conditions for vulnerable groups in society and giving back to the community through design. Integrating architectural, landscape, interior, and soft furnishing design, the program addresses issues such as limited space and poor ventilation.
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Leaves Club House
This is a community club, which is located halfway up a mountain. The scene of wind blowing leaves in autumn is the most beautiful here. The designer was inspired by the wind blowing through the leaves. Fully respecting Changsha's native landforms and what the city has to offer culturally, the design seeks to integrate local massifs and structures, which are a source of inspiration for this project, into indoor spaces. Beyond that, the rolling ceiling of the former building is retained as a means to mirror what a wavy mountain is like.
This is a community club, which is located halfway up a mountain. The scene of wind blowing leaves in autumn is the most beautiful here. The designer was inspired by the wind blowing through the leaves. Fully respecting Changsha's native landforms and what the city has to offer culturally, the design seeks to integrate local massifs and structures, which are a source of inspiration for this project, into indoor spaces. Beyond that, the rolling ceiling of the former building is retained as a means to mirror what a wavy mountain is like.
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Skylight Sales Center
This is a sales center in a community in Yiwu, China. The biggest problem the project designer faced is that the interior space is relatively deep. Also, there is no large glass curtain wall on the exterior of the building, which blocks the natural light and leads to poor indoor lighting. The design strategy is to employ skylights and introduces natural light in through the fifth facade of the building, thereby solving the problem of insufficient lighting in the interior space.
This is a sales center in a community in Yiwu, China. The biggest problem the project designer faced is that the interior space is relatively deep. Also, there is no large glass curtain wall on the exterior of the building, which blocks the natural light and leads to poor indoor lighting. The design strategy is to employ skylights and introduces natural light in through the fifth facade of the building, thereby solving the problem of insufficient lighting in the interior space.
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Central Park Sales Office
The project is located at Xi'an, next to Xi'an's largest urban ecological park, about 113.4 hectares, and has become a natural landscape resource for the project. Every inch of land and every plant has got a very poetic expression. The designers hope to use the "Central Park" as the theme, combined with the guest line and use the "Introduction, elucidation, transition, and summary" design method to create a reception center with park experience.
The project is located at Xi'an, next to Xi'an's largest urban ecological park, about 113.4 hectares, and has become a natural landscape resource for the project. Every inch of land and every plant has got a very poetic expression. The designers hope to use the "Central Park" as the theme, combined with the guest line and use the "Introduction, elucidation, transition, and summary" design method to create a reception center with park experience.
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City Of Light Community Center
A river is in front of this project. The design concept from the rhythm of the water itself with the usage of the liquid-like blob architecture. The designer blends the curve with the geometric shape and forms a streamlined building with a sense of technology and future. It breaks the traditional concept of Founder architecture and integrates streamlined fashion design into architectural design so that the whole building looks like a streamlined ocean wave. The public space increase the interaction of the neighborhood. Everyone has more communities communication and people-to-people contact.
A river is in front of this project. The design concept from the rhythm of the water itself with the usage of the liquid-like blob architecture. The designer blends the curve with the geometric shape and forms a streamlined building with a sense of technology and future. It breaks the traditional concept of Founder architecture and integrates streamlined fashion design into architectural design so that the whole building looks like a streamlined ocean wave. The public space increase the interaction of the neighborhood. Everyone has more communities communication and people-to-people contact.
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Flying Exhibition Center
The project is located at Jiangyin city on the edge of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River is China's largest river, and it has nurtured the advanced Yangtze River Economic Belt. Designers use the advantages of geographical location to create an urban art experience center.This project is an integrated design that combines architecture, interior, landscape, and soft design.The whole design concept revolves around the flying over the water surface. Looking at the whole building, the design of the structure is like a pair of flying wings.
The project is located at Jiangyin city on the edge of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River is China's largest river, and it has nurtured the advanced Yangtze River Economic Belt. Designers use the advantages of geographical location to create an urban art experience center.This project is an integrated design that combines architecture, interior, landscape, and soft design.The whole design concept revolves around the flying over the water surface. Looking at the whole building, the design of the structure is like a pair of flying wings.
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Snail Bay City Exhibition Hall
The project is located in Kunming, it is also known as Flower City and Spring City. It is one of the most habitable cities in China. This case is the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings in Snail Bay. The Snail Bay Center is a government-led urban renewal project that was upgraded on the original site of Old Snail Bay. The designers’ strategy is to remove the external wall, dig its internal spatial memory and value, and endow it with proper temperament while preserving its structure and spatial pattern.
The project is located in Kunming, it is also known as Flower City and Spring City. It is one of the most habitable cities in China. This case is the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings in Snail Bay. The Snail Bay Center is a government-led urban renewal project that was upgraded on the original site of Old Snail Bay. The designers’ strategy is to remove the external wall, dig its internal spatial memory and value, and endow it with proper temperament while preserving its structure and spatial pattern.
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Shine City Sales Center
The project is a sales center. Inspiration comes from traditional Chinese aesthetics. The design technique applied in inherits the artistic conception of Song Dynasty aesthetics.The earliest minimalists appeared in Song Dynasty. It is the minimalism expression of the oriental realm. It is the minimalism expression of the oriental realm. The design chooses silk used in paintings in Song Dynasty as a design element, and utilizes the artistic creation techniques of purity and leaving blank space to create a poetic atmosphere from sophistication to simple.
The project is a sales center. Inspiration comes from traditional Chinese aesthetics. The design technique applied in inherits the artistic conception of Song Dynasty aesthetics.The earliest minimalists appeared in Song Dynasty. It is the minimalism expression of the oriental realm. It is the minimalism expression of the oriental realm. The design chooses silk used in paintings in Song Dynasty as a design element, and utilizes the artistic creation techniques of purity and leaving blank space to create a poetic atmosphere from sophistication to simple.
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Flow Sale Center
This is a sales and exhibition space for the community. Cube art installation before entering the interior, the purpose is to attract people's attention, people come here to take photos and enter the interior to visit. When people enter the interior, the curved wall resembles the ripples produced by the flow of curved water, which has the energy to form a dynamic vision, creating a fluid spatial form. Shaping the image of the future city.
This is a sales and exhibition space for the community. Cube art installation before entering the interior, the purpose is to attract people's attention, people come here to take photos and enter the interior to visit. When people enter the interior, the curved wall resembles the ripples produced by the flow of curved water, which has the energy to form a dynamic vision, creating a fluid spatial form. Shaping the image of the future city.
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Sequence Showroom
A community development display and sales space in Chongqing, China. The designer were inspired by the modern expression of traditional elements such as screens. It conveys the historical and cultural details with Chinese traditional introverted silence. The design interpret the classical element in a modern way, moreover, to inherit the culture in a humanistic way. In the small space, the elegant artistic conception of court gallery is displayed.
A community development display and sales space in Chongqing, China. The designer were inspired by the modern expression of traditional elements such as screens. It conveys the historical and cultural details with Chinese traditional introverted silence. The design interpret the classical element in a modern way, moreover, to inherit the culture in a humanistic way. In the small space, the elegant artistic conception of court gallery is displayed.
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Glass Core Lobby
The project located in Jiaxing, China. It has three floors connected by an elevator space in the atrium. The first floor is the office area, the second floor is the reception area, and the third floor is the brand display area, conversation area, VIP room, etc. Entering from the first floor and taking the elevator directly to the lobby on the third floor. In the elevator, the translucent glass is inlaid with metal material, and the texture is like white jade with gold rim, and it is like a white rainbow neon falling from the sky.
The project located in Jiaxing, China. It has three floors connected by an elevator space in the atrium. The first floor is the office area, the second floor is the reception area, and the third floor is the brand display area, conversation area, VIP room, etc. Entering from the first floor and taking the elevator directly to the lobby on the third floor. In the elevator, the translucent glass is inlaid with metal material, and the texture is like white jade with gold rim, and it is like a white rainbow neon falling from the sky.
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Rhythm Sales Center
In the wave of the development of the times, the designer tried to use the modern design language to interpret the spirit of the city and create a sense of the urban neighborhood and make it become the first display of the community spirit. The facade of the building uses textured reflective glass material. The surface of the glass reflects the natural landscape of the surrounding city. The structure inside the space and the skin are intertwined like a ribbon.
In the wave of the development of the times, the designer tried to use the modern design language to interpret the spirit of the city and create a sense of the urban neighborhood and make it become the first display of the community spirit. The facade of the building uses textured reflective glass material. The surface of the glass reflects the natural landscape of the surrounding city. The structure inside the space and the skin are intertwined like a ribbon.
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Frame Sales Office
The project is located in Tianjin. The high-speed South Railway Station Science and Technology Business District in this area will become a Beijing-Tianjin comprehensive transportation hub. The surrounding transportation is convenient. Designers hope that the shape of the art gallery in the box makes the project a visual focus and attracts people's attention, and it is hoped that the outlook of the future living status of the area will be conveyed through design.The frame structure has two functions: one is the definition of function, and the other is the aesthetics of design.
The project is located in Tianjin. The high-speed South Railway Station Science and Technology Business District in this area will become a Beijing-Tianjin comprehensive transportation hub. The surrounding transportation is convenient. Designers hope that the shape of the art gallery in the box makes the project a visual focus and attracts people's attention, and it is hoped that the outlook of the future living status of the area will be conveyed through design.The frame structure has two functions: one is the definition of function, and the other is the aesthetics of design.
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Textile Art Center
This case is an urban renewal and renovation project. Under the background of urban renewal, the designer has carried out a comprehensive study on the history and geographical features of the textile industry in Deqing County. Inspired by the Textile. The main body of the space follows the architectural structure of the old factory building and uses the architectural symbols of the broken lines to integrate the building into the interior to form an organic unity. It is like an art gallery that exists in a box.
This case is an urban renewal and renovation project. Under the background of urban renewal, the designer has carried out a comprehensive study on the history and geographical features of the textile industry in Deqing County. Inspired by the Textile. The main body of the space follows the architectural structure of the old factory building and uses the architectural symbols of the broken lines to integrate the building into the interior to form an organic unity. It is like an art gallery that exists in a box.
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Seeking Deer Sales Office
The project is divided into two floors, the one floor is the hall display area and the conversation area, and the second floor is the reception and office area. The designers break the second floor with a large-scale floor-to-ceiling window. And through the contrast between the fuzzy and the clear produced by the glass material, become a visual connection. A 6 meter long installation, "Deer of Life", is set up in the second-floor window area. Guests can see this "deer" through the window on the first floor.
The project is divided into two floors, the one floor is the hall display area and the conversation area, and the second floor is the reception and office area. The designers break the second floor with a large-scale floor-to-ceiling window. And through the contrast between the fuzzy and the clear produced by the glass material, become a visual connection. A 6 meter long installation, "Deer of Life", is set up in the second-floor window area. Guests can see this "deer" through the window on the first floor.
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Fantasia Luwan 68 Apartment
The apartment is located in a residential building at Shanghai. It is located in Shanghai Luwan District, here is the birthplace of Shanghai's indigenous people; There are Shanghai Shikumen architecture, there are western Baroque architecture. In the social area the intervention involved the removal of the existing dividing wall between the living room and the kitchen, thus providing a single wider space. It was not only a connecting and attractive link of the entire space but also a functional solution.
The apartment is located in a residential building at Shanghai. It is located in Shanghai Luwan District, here is the birthplace of Shanghai's indigenous people; There are Shanghai Shikumen architecture, there are western Baroque architecture. In the social area the intervention involved the removal of the existing dividing wall between the living room and the kitchen, thus providing a single wider space. It was not only a connecting and attractive link of the entire space but also a functional solution.
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Banboo Windows Sales Office
Yuanye is the first monograph in China to comprehensively explain the principles of gardening, which is inseparable from China's long tradition of gardening, and reflects the highest state of human nature relations.The designers extracts the important landscape elements bamboo, combined with the traditional Chinese court etiquette and lyrical scenery and created a modern mansion with literary elegance and oriental courtyard order. This project has set up a variety of functional spaces such as the reception area, display area, conversation area, reading area, children's area, etc.
Yuanye is the first monograph in China to comprehensively explain the principles of gardening, which is inseparable from China's long tradition of gardening, and reflects the highest state of human nature relations.The designers extracts the important landscape elements bamboo, combined with the traditional Chinese court etiquette and lyrical scenery and created a modern mansion with literary elegance and oriental courtyard order. This project has set up a variety of functional spaces such as the reception area, display area, conversation area, reading area, children's area, etc.
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Courtyard Public Space
This project is a space in the lobby and foyer located in a residential area in Shenyang. It is one way for the residents of this community to go home. The designers hope to use the Chinese courtyard as the design concept to create a homeward journey. The inspiration comes from the courtyard style design method of three-entry homes in traditional Chinese architecture to create a space with a three-entry model of the outer court—inner courtyard-inner house.
This project is a space in the lobby and foyer located in a residential area in Shenyang. It is one way for the residents of this community to go home. The designers hope to use the Chinese courtyard as the design concept to create a homeward journey. The inspiration comes from the courtyard style design method of three-entry homes in traditional Chinese architecture to create a space with a three-entry model of the outer court—inner courtyard-inner house.
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